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Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
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Job 22:16
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
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Psalms 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
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Job 18:16-17
His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
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Hosea 14:5-7
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
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John 15:6
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Psalms 52:5-8
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,“ Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
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Job 8:16-19
He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying,‘ I have not seen you.’Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.
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Ezekiel 17:8-10
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’“ Say,‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”
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Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
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Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
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Job 14:7-9
“ For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
